Where is Your Confidence? Ps 118:8-9
Where is your confidence? Is it in men, princes, gold and silver, your flesh, or the Lord? Is your confidence in men – Ps 118:8 – during perilous times not only can men fail you, they can turn on you. Study the Bible and history and you will see repeated instances of this. Joab turned […]
Lessons in Comforting
Lessons in Comforting Job 2:11-13 How to comfort someone who is in great despair can be a very tricky thing. Most of the time we simply do not know what to say or do. Here we will look at the book of Job and how his three friends came to comfort him in order to […]
Things You Can Only See From God’s Point of View
Things you can only see from God’s Point of View Psalm 73:1-28 In this passage we see that there are at least 3 perspectives, there is the write’s perspective, there is the perspective of the wicked, and God’s perspective. Keeping the right perspective in life can be a real challenge but having God’s perspective will […]
Sanctification of the Soul
I Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”. Introduction: In our Sunday School class we are going through a series regarding Sanctification. According to this verse, we are to live a […]
Jonathan’s Proof of Love for David
1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Vs 3 “because he loved him as his own soul”. Introduction: After David’s victory over Goliath in chapter 17, Jonathan’s soul was […]
Who Are You Serving, Rom 1:1
We are called to be servants just like the Lord Jesus was [Phil 2:3-8; Matt 20:25-28] – and so the question is, Who are you serving? Are you serving: Christ’s Righteousness – Rom 6:18 – in your life before you were saved, you were the servant of sin – after you were saved you were […]
Don’t Envy Sinners, Prov 23:17-19
Don’t envy sinners. One of the greatest safeguards against straying from the Lord, when you are a young Christian, is to “let not thine heart envy sinners”. When I was a teenager, envying sinners caused me to turn away from the Lord so I could pursue what they were doing. Prov 23:17-19 gives you four […]
John’s Second Epistle
John’s second epistle is addressed to “the elect lady and her children”. John is the elder, 1 Pet 5:1. She is elect, meaning she’s saved. Why did John write this second epistle to them? To express his true love to her and them, v.1-3. When John, the elder, expressed his love to the elect lady […]
Public Ministry, Prov 1:20-23
When you read in Prov 1 that wisdom crieth without, you may wonder how she does it. Wisdom crieth without through public ministry. Public ministry is public, Prov 1:20-21 – it is accomplished by publishing the word of God “without” the four walls of your church or house – it’s “in the streets,” in the […]
No Part Dark, Lk 11:33-36
In Lk 11:33-36, Jesus used the illustration of a lighted candle to teach his disciples about seeing him and having their whole bodies full of light and having no part dark. In the context of this passage, Jesus had just rebuked this evil generation for seeking a sign, Lk 11:29-32. They were looking for a […]